Keep Calm and Craft On

Had to do one of the Keep Calms just because. :p

Got the pattern of Etsy. Changed the colours. And here it is.




Will add another pic if I have the right-sized frame lying around somewhere.

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Head Over Heals on a Tuesday

An unexpected gift from a dear Pinoy friend :)

The kit is staring at me while I work today! Hahaha




Another friend dropped by my desk and saw this. She asked "Why is it a junior one? Shouldn't it be atleast advance for you?" lol I replied "My friend knows I do not have much time in hand to do an advance one. " ;)

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Student Saxophone bookmark

Didn't know what to get my brother when I was visiting him in UK. This piece took me the shortest time to complete it.

Finished it with felt and a musical-themed ribbon. Bookmarks are simple awesome as it can be of any shapes and sizes. =)

Dear Danish

Honestly, this piece took me the longest. Not that it is complex but it has been my piece in between many events including my very first surgery in life. It is also my first piece with a message.

Lessons learned :
- Never leave the cloth in the embroidery hoop in between stitching; remove the hoop when you are not working in it as it will leave a permanent mark on the cloth :(
- always make sure the kind of pen you use to mark on the fabric. *sighhh* I mistook my washable pen with a ball point pen. :(

Thalia A4 Logo

This has got to be the biggest piece I have completed and the only piece which brought in some money to my pocket. :p

I have regenerated the pattern for this logo a million of times until it have me something I am happy with. The letters were easy to figure but the little flower on top the 3 letters(ali) were a little bit tough and knowing me, I would like to have the closest result to the actual flower.

I took the actual logo to the handicraft shop and tried to math the colour that made the little flower. It turned out to have 5 different colour. To pick he colours of threads was fu. But the drawing bit, almost killed me because I can't draw. Hahaha I had drafted te little flower in my graph book many times until I decided to simply draw it on the red aida with the washable ink. And no, I didn't have to erase anything on the cloth. One try, tadaa! Then I stitched! Should have just drawn on the cloth from the very beginning. "=.=

Completed this in 1 an a 1/2 week. Not too bad. Looked simple but it still took some time.

Red Aida was used as the background as there are a lot of red and no way I'm gonna stitch that amount of red. I have used white felt to be the border which I think is great because it give a good finishing to the piece(it is also how the actual logo looks like) and it obviously saved time! Sooooo more time to stitch more pieces. ;)

Anyhow, here it is! It is now placed somewhere in Thalia office. May it make it to the next fair.